but over 250, you go to the clinton rates. pay a little bit more so we can attack this deficit, so we can make the investments we need to make in this great country of ours and i'll tell you if the republicans can do this, we are going to see smiles on the faces of the people. i was very happy to see tom cole over in the house who was the head of the -- i think it's -- not the d -- the r triple c, the republican campaign committee over there. he said it's time to come to agreement on that proposal. so i ask the republicans, we're giving you 98%, take it. then lets sit down and debate the rest of it. the there's a lot of other things we have to do, the a.m.t., the doc fix, we have to do loot of other things and -- a lot of other things and i'm willing to compromise on those things but let's get those tax cuts in place right now before this holiday season so that the middle class knows they're not going to face a tax increase. and i could just say honestly that the american people would think that we were really doing the right